This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: L. Meruane
EAN: 9781137394989
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 4238 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-05-14
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Social groups, communities and identities, Urban communities, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics
Author Lina Meruane: Lina Meruane teaches Latin American Cultures in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, USA.Translated by Andrea Rosenberg: Andrea Rosenberg translates literary and academic texts from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translation of David Jiménez s Children of the Monsoon was recently published by Autumn Hill Books. She is currently working on a novel by Leopoldo Brizuela with the support of a Fulbright grant.
